KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. The Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected the version of the presidential vote tally put forward by the legal team of losing candidate Prabowo Subianto, which was intended to support the claim that the Gerindra Party patron and his running mate Sandiaga Uno had won the April election. Justice Arief Hidayat called Prabowo’s own vote count — which was included in his petition challenging the officially announced result — “legally baseless” since it lacked evidence to verify it. In a revised petition, which was read out during the first hearing, the Prabowo-Sandiaga legal team requested that the court declare the pair the winners of the election, arguing that their own tally indicated they got 52 percent of the vote against incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Ma’ruf Amin’s 48 percent.
Prabowo's claim of victory baseless, court says
KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. The Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected the version of the presidential vote tally put forward by the legal team of losing candidate Prabowo Subianto, which was intended to support the claim that the Gerindra Party patron and his running mate Sandiaga Uno had won the April election. Justice Arief Hidayat called Prabowo’s own vote count — which was included in his petition challenging the officially announced result — “legally baseless” since it lacked evidence to verify it. In a revised petition, which was read out during the first hearing, the Prabowo-Sandiaga legal team requested that the court declare the pair the winners of the election, arguing that their own tally indicated they got 52 percent of the vote against incumbent Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Ma’ruf Amin’s 48 percent.